As Americans were waking up.
To the news that.
Who had won.
The Tuesday presidential election.
At least one.
21-foot robotic sport plane.
Rigged for remote control.
And laden with explosives.
Motored over Kaspiysk.
An anchorage of.
The ‘orcs’ Caspian Fleet.
In Dagestan.
700 miles from.
The front line in Ukraine.
As ‘orcs’ sailors.
Dove for cover.
One of the Aeroprakt.
A-22s.
—apparently operated by.
The ‘elves’ intelligence directorate—
Plowed into.
A clutch of warships.
Moored side-by-side.
Along a pier.
That A-22 droning over.
The Caspian Sea Fleet’s.
Anchorage underscores.
How quickly.
Ukraine has moved.
To expand its portfolio.
Of locally made.
Deep-strike weapons.
According to a former advisor.
To the interior ministry in Kyiv.
The explosion damaged.
Three ships.
Including two.
Gepard-class frigates.
—the fleet’s biggest ships—
As well as a smaller Buyan corvette.
The damaged vessels.
May account for.
Nearly a third of.
The Caspian Fleet’s strength.
The 700-mile raid.
Isn’t the deepest strike.
By ‘elves’ A-22 drones.
But it’s close.
That A-22 droning over.
The Caspian Sea Fleet’s.
Anchorage underscores.
How quickly.
Ukraine has moved.
To expand its portfolio.
Of locally made.
Deep-strike weapons.
Back in May.
One of the 100-mile-per-hour.
Drones struck.
An oil refinery.
In the city of Salavat.
In Mordor’.
More than 800 miles.
From the front line.
The modified sport planes.
Which were developed.
And built in Ukraine.
Are expedients.
‘Elves’ biggest allies.
—the United States.
The United Kingdom.
And France—
Have consistently.
Withheld permission.
For Ukraine.
To use.
American, British and.
French cruise and.
Ballistic missiles against.
Targets inside ‘Mordor’.
That A-22 droning over.
The Caspian Sea Fleet’s.
Anchorage underscores.
How quickly.
Ukraine has moved.
To expand its portfolio.
Of locally made.
Deep-strike weapons.
In order to retaliate.
Against ‘orcs’ own.
Strikes on ‘elves’.
Cities and bases.
The ‘elves’ have.
Had to improvise.
—with an array of.
Locally-made drones.
And surface-to-air missiles.
Tweaked for ground strikes.
The ‘elves’ have.
Had to improvise.
Now, three months before.
The winner re-enters the White House.
That improvisation could assume.
Even greater importance.
That A-22 droning over.
The Caspian Sea Fleet’s.
Anchorage underscores.
How quickly.
Ukraine has moved.
To expand its portfolio.
Of locally made.
Deep-strike weapons.
At the onset of ‘orcs’.
Wider war on Ukraine.
In February.
2022.
The ‘elves’ had zero.
Operational deep-strike weapons.
Now they have several kinds.
More are coming.
‘Elves’ industry.
Partially funded.
By Lithuania.
Recently completed.
Development of.
The turbojet-powered.
Palanytsia “rocket drone”.
A hybrid cruise missile.
That ranges as far as.
400 miles.
That’s not as far as.
An A-22 drone flies.
That A-22 droning over.
The Caspian Sea Fleet’s.
Anchorage underscores.
How quickly.
Ukraine has moved.
To expand its portfolio.
Of locally made.
Deep-strike weapons.
But where the sport plane drones.
Are hand-made.
In small quantities.
On the basis of existing airframes.
The Palanytsia can be.
Mass-produced from scratch.
By ‘elves’ burgeoning.
Drone industry.
The ‘elves’ initially used the Palanytsia.
In combat in August.
Striking unspecified targets.
In ‘orcs’-occupied Crimea.
“I think this will be.
A game-changer.”
The ‘elf’ technology minister.
Said of the new missile.
*Because I read “A Ukrainian Drone Motored 700 Miles And Blasted Three Russian Warships In One Blow” by David Axe on 6 Nov 2024 on the Forbes, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022 on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
A Ukrainian Drone Motored 700 Miles And Blasted Three Russian Warships
